Senior Software Engineer

The Create Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop impactful AI-powered solutions that enhance everyday creativity and productivity. This position requires a hands-on engineering professional who is committed to excellence, values writing clean and maintainable code, conducts thorough code reviews, and prioritizes both performance and quality. 

As an experienced generalist, you will contribute across the technology stack, prototyping, deploying, and refining user-facing features, as well as working on core foundational technologies. Collaboration with designers, product managers, researchers, and applied scientists will be essential. We are looking for someone who demonstrates curiosity, pragmatism, and a willingness to experiment—an individual who can drive innovation while ensuring a strong architectural foundation for our products. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations worldwide to achieve more. As employees, we embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, and collaborate towards shared objectives. Each day, we build upon our core values of respect, integrity, and accountability, cultivating a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive professionally and personally. 

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance frontend systems utilizing React, TypeScript, and modern rendering architectures for AI-driven productivity experiences within M365 Copilot. 
• Contribute to backend services in C#, adhering to partner team processes, coding guidelines, and safe rollout practices, ensuring incremental improvements are shipped safely. 
• Employ a model-first approach and metrics-based insights, combining analytical rigor with creativity to drive team and product innovation. 
• Collaborate across Microsoft to advance a unified frontend platform, establishing reusable architectural patterns and best practices for consistent, intelligent, high-performing user experiences. 
• Lead key architectural decisions and provide hands-on contributions to elevate the standard of frontend engineering, balancing innovation with platform stability. 
• Utilize data-driven methodologies for performance optimization, leveraging telemetry, experimentation, and diagnostics to continuously improve responsiveness, accessibility, and reliability. 
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of technical excellence through best practices in architecture, performance profiling, and cross-platform design systems. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in multi-stack projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Experience leveraging AI solutions to both development lifecycle and large scale problems

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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